Pathway- 2D art
I have chosen the 2d art pathway as I feel that this is the pathway I am most confident doing and I believe that it is the area that I preform best in, 2D art is also the pathway I most enjoy as it allows me to be more creative than is possible with the other two pathways.
Initial idea 1- mythical creature (dragon)
Visual style: for this piece of art will be using a semi-realistic art style as I don’t think that I am skilled enough to do a fully realistic art piece but I believe that I could do a semi realistic piece with color and shading. For the color on this dragon I will use either red or white as I believe these are the two most recognizable and intimidating colors, with both of these colors I will use darker and lighter shades of both to highlight certain parts of the dragon such as the neck scales, belly, feet and parts of the head.
For this sketch I would create a full dragon from a diagonal angle about 45 degrees if the head was 0 degrees, I would also create 1 or two color ideas depending on how long the first on took me. The dragon will be a typical European style dragon with large powerful wings with large neck scales and large horns and claws.
Initial idea 2- cosmic horror character (undefined)
Visual style: for this piece i will also be using a semi realistic art style but this piece will be darker and with almost no highlights, for the color on this piece I will be will be using pale shades of grey, brown and white however these colors will be shrouded in heavy shadow to show that the creature that i am drawing is underground and my drawing will hopeful reference this as well with not only its pale complexion but its lack of eyes and skinny slender body.
for this sketch I will create a multi armed humanoid with no head and large muscular legs, it will also have a huge misshapen mouth in its chest and hundred of nostril slits on its many armpits. the reason I have chosen this idea is because I feel it reflects the cosmic horror genre very well and will be sufficiently creepy and indescribable.
Initial idea 3- decaying creature (skeletal horse)
Visual style: for this piece I will be using the semi-realistic art style but with a more washed out and faded look similar to the Witcher 3’s area and game loading scenes, I have chosen this effect because I think it will make the drawing look more medieval and apathetic; what I mean by this is that I believe that using this art style will make the image less shocking and impactful this will happen because the art style will obscure and slightly cover the gore of the picture.
for this sketch I will be using a lot of brown, white and red for this sketch, I have chosen to use there colors as they are very basic and fit my art style well as they are basic and simple colors they also allow the sketch to look like it is on old parchment, which is a the aesthetic I am going for.
Initial idea 4- abandoned building (castle)
Visual style: for this piece I will again be using a semi realistic art style but with a dark Gothic aesthetic, I have chosen this aesthetic because I think that it will go very well with the style of the castle and the setting.
Setting: The setting for this environment is a Gothic or Norman style castle on a cliff edge overlooking the sea with a lightning storm happening above and heavy rain obscuring the viewers sight.
For this sketch i will be using mostly dark shes of blue, grey and some white to highlight, I have chosen these colors because they fit the visual style I am trying to achieve, this color pallet also makes the most sense with my environment and the objects in it.
Evaluation:
My first idea is an idea which I enjoy in planning and idea generation but in execution these is a large room for error and the possibility that I will run over time because I know that drawing dragons is time consuming especially getting the scales right and getting the wings even and realistic looking. my second idea is my favorite as it allows me to use as much or as little creativity as I like as cosmic horror has no real defining features and can look like whatever I want as long as it’s weird and unnatural looking which leaves a lot of room for change and also there is so many applications for this kind of character such as a horror game an action game as well as many different settings such as sci-fi, modern, medieval, Victorian, interstellar ect. my third idea I am not too keen on as it will be hard to properly accomplish the art style I have defined for it and and I don’t think it will look very good, as well as this I have never drawn a horse before and I am not familiar with their body proportions which will be an issue when drawing one. I like my Final idea and i think that it will be relatively easy to accomplish the majority of it but I am not very confident drawing lightning and highlighting which would be a big part of this sketch.
Final idea- (undefined)
I have chosen my second idea to develop further and eventually produce, I have done this because I enjoy the idea greatly and enjoy cosmic horror as an art form and have been consuming other related media for a while now such as the movie annihilation which i enjoyed very much especially the creature design and the story concept, promethius also, by it’s self, sits in this category because the monsters on it are very unique and if you haven’t seen the alien movies they are all new and weird concepts. for this idea I will use Photoshop to produce a 2D character concept sketch of the creature I have defined in the idea 2 section, to produce this I will create a front and side view character sketch, this creature will feature 8 skinny long arms spaced evenly down its body starting where its head would be, these arms will end in large splayed out hands tipped with log sharp nails, the torso of the creature will be similar to that of a human but will be very skinny with exposed ribs and thorax and will have large, muscular and fur covered legs also ending in large, splayed and clawed hands; the creature will have an overall pale and malnourished look and will not have eyes, I have chosen to do this because the creature is supposed to look as if it has adapted to a life underground. I will also produce 3 more character concepts, these characters will be drawn from a front and side view and will also be biased around the cosmic horror genre as it allows for so much creativity. I have chosen to this amount as it will mean that I have 4 separate display boards with individual and unique character drawing on each.
Louie Bailey, games design 